Designing an Organization in a Hypothesis Testing Framework

Abstract

This paper deals with problems of quantitative organizational design. We endorse the development of a Normative Decision Theory for the quantitative study of distributed organizations. We suggest that Hypothesis Testing is an appropriate paradigm for this framework. To demonstrate this, we present numerical interests for a team consisting of two decision makers (DMs) which performs binary hypothesis testing and study the effect of different communication protocols; we show that near-optimal performance can be achieved with few communications bits. We summarize some other organizational design problems we have studied and present some tentative conclusions and suggestions for future research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA210443

Entities

People

  • Jason D. Papastavrou
  • Javed Pothiawala
  • Michael Athans

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computational Complexity
  • Covert Operations
  • Decision Theory
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Explosions
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Hypotheses
  • Massachusetts
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Probability
  • Statistics
  • Target Detection

Readers

  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.